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Auteur(s) : Torrence, Harold
Titre(s) : The clause structure of Wolof [Texte imprimé] : insights into the left periphery / Harold Torrence
Publication : Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2013
Description matérielle : xii, 289 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : Linguistik aktuell-Linguistics today ; v. 198
Lien à la collection : Linguistik aktuell
Comprend : Introductory remarks on Wolof grammar ; Overview of the book ; Wolof in the Atlantic
family and Senegambian group ; Wolof and its dialects ; Previous work on Wolof ; Phonology
; Phonemic inventory and orthographie conventions ; Phonological processes ; Orthographie
conventions ; Agreement ; Nouns and pronouns ; Nouns and noun class ; The determiner
system of Wolof ; Object marking ; Verb morphology ; Tense and aspect ; Clause types
and clause structure. Introduction ; Negation ; Clitic position ; Subject marking
; Overview of subject marking ; Cleft clause subject markers ; Strong pronouns ; Genitive
subject markers ; Neutral na-dmse subject markers ; Conclusions ; The Wolof left periphery.
Introduction ; Exploded CP ; Focus and emphasis in Wolof ; Topics ; The complementizer
system ; Declarative clauses ; Yes/No questions ; Wh-questions ; The far left periphery
; Summary ; The structure of relative clauses. Introduction ; Basics of Wolof relative
clauses ; Raising properties of Wolof relative clauses;Introduction ; Islands ; A
Wolof-specific movement test ; Reconstruction effects ; Relative clause structure
: the relative markers ; Analyzing the relative markers ; Distribution of the relative
markers ; Tense and the relative markers; ; Intermediate summary ; CP, D, and CP-raising
; Structures and dependencies ; The relation between D and C ; CP raising ; Ideophones
and CP raising ; Relative clauses and Wh-expressions ; Open issues : indefinite relative
clauses ; Summary ; Null nominals in Wolof and elsewhere. Introduction ; The existence
of null wh-expressions in Wolof ; Null and overt wh-expressions in Wolof ; Interpretation
and identification of null and overt wh-expressions ; Movement properties of null
and overt wh-expressions;Introduction ; Null wh-expressions and islands ; Successive
cyclic effects in movement ; A Wolof-specific movement diagnostic ; Superiority ;
Crossover ; Reconstruction effects ; A third type of wh-expression in Wolo ; Open
issues with the relative markers ; Wolof null whs in the typology of null wh-operators
; Introduction ; Wolof null nominals I : the locative ana construction ; Wolof null
nominals II : temporal clauses ; Topic drop in German ; Wh-drop in Dutch and Bavarian
; Norwegian ; Conclusions ; Complementizer agreement in Wolof and beyond ; Varieties
of C-agreement ; A-agreement languages ; Germanic complementizer agreement ; Najdi
Arabic ; A'-agreement languages ; French ; Irish ; Buli ; Kinande ; Complementizer
agreement across niger-congo : atlantic and bantu ; Summary --References Name index
; Subject index.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-283) and indexes
Sujet(s) : Wolof (langue) -- Grammaire
Wolof (langue) -- Syntaxe
Wolof (langue) -- Propositions (linguistique)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789027255815 (hbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 9027255814 (hbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9789027273017 (ebk.). - ISBN 9027273014 (ebk.)
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Notice n° :
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